Meet Angela
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Angela L. McKee-Brown brings over a decade of experience designing and building meaningful food experiences with communities.
She developed Project Reflect during her time as Entrepreneur in Residence with Emerson Collective. Prior to her residency, Angie served as the Executive Director of the Edible Schoolyard Project, a nonprofit based in Berkeley, CA that is focused on providing hands-on learning experiences in gardens, kitchens, and cafeterias that connect children to nature, food, and each other.
Before joining Edible, she served as the Director of Innovation and Strategy with San Francisco Unified School District’s Future Dining Experience where she oversaw the redesign of the school meal experience. She has also worked to expand access to market opportunities for chefs and food entrepreneurs who are women, immigrants, and people of color while at the non-profit La Cocina.
Angie was a 2016-2017 Stanford University d.school Civic Innovation Fellow, and she brings an equity-centered design framework to her work.
Thought Partners
For every good idea, there is a network of conversations, lived experiences, questions, curiosities, learning moments, and good meals that have helped produce it.
The folks listed below are who Project Reflect turns to when developing concepts, exploring questions and thinking needs to be stretched.
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Raquel is an experienced Consultant and Educator with a demonstrated history of working in non-profit organizations; with a focus on farming, sustainability, education, and project management. Skilled in student leadership, horticulture, collaborative problem solving, sustainability education, and curriculum development. Raquel is a strong consulting professional with a Masters of Arts focused in Curriculum and Teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University.Raquel’s scholarship focuses on sustainability education, climate change education, museum education, creative education, public pedagogy, walking methodologies, and mapping.
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Studio Magic Hour and LinkedIn
Lucy Flores is a design strategist dedicated to co-creating a more equitable and joyful food system. She is the founder of Studio Magic Hour, a collaborative design studio working to advance equity in the food system, and a former Equitable Design Fellow at Hopelab. Previously, she led innovation initiatives at FoodCorps, a national nonprofit that partners with schools and communities to nourish kids’ health, education, and sense of belonging. She is a member of the Design Justice Network, Equity Army, and AIGA.
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www.shanonmorris.com
Shanon is a Registered Dietitian who has been working with communities from children to senior citizens for over a decade with the goal of making nutrition relatable, accessible, and enjoyable for all.
Shanon is a Howard and Columbia University Alumni where she studied both Nutrition and Exercise Science, giving her the tools to influence behavioral change throughout all of New York City. Shanon currently serves as the Executive Director for Edible Schoolyard NYC.
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Founder & Principal, Radical Love Productions, LLC
Scholar of race, religion, and public life. Founder of Radical Love Productions, a media company dedicated to creating content that speaks to the most important moral issues about what it means to be human, specifically around questions of race, democracy, and justice. As Executive Director of Stanford's Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity, I revitalized the Research Institute of the Center, curated & hosted Viet Thanh Nguyen for endowed lecture, led implementation of Mellon grant and Mellon Arts Fellows, drove efforts on technology, AI, and racial equity w/Stanford's Institute for Human Centered AI (HAI), and secured partnerships across the University - w/Center for Racial Justice, HAI, and the d.School.
My upcoming podcast is called “The Hope Index”, a conversation-driven dive into out collective moral and justice culture.
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With over thirty years of experience, Manuel Oliva is a leading expert within the nexus of climate change and natural resource conservation issues, with a specific emphasis on sustainable food systems. Manuel has worked extensively to advance climate change and conservation outcomes across different sectors (e.g., agriculture, energy, urban, rural), and in collaboration with diverse global partners (e.g., regional and national governments, private sector, international and non-governmental organizations, local and indigenous communities).
As Chief Executive Officer for Point Blue Conservation Science, Manuel has overall strategic and operational responsibility for staff, programs, and execution of the organization’s mission. Based in California, Point Blue is a leading scientific non-governmental institution with 160 scientists, restorationists, and educators committed to advancing the science of climate-smart conservation and developing collaborative nature-based solutions to address the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. A major strategic initiative of the organization is improving food systems to sustain human communities and economies, while enhancing the ability of these landscapes to contribute to ecosystem services such as water quality and availability, biodiversity conservation, and nutrient cycling.
In his previous role with the Foreign Agricultural Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Manuel oversaw the design and implementation of agricultural capacity building projects in developing countries to improve food security and economic opportunity outcomes for local communities. In addition, Manuel has served in leadership positions for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Conservation International and the city of Washington D.C. Within these roles Manuel managed diverse professional staff and led the successful development of innovative climate change policies and on-the-ground projects at the international, national and local levels. In addition, Manuel gained extensive experience building strong relationships with a wide range of partners and communities to craft climate change mitigation and resiliency strategies that emphasize natural resource conservation and address critical social justice issues.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuel-oliva-77072b7/
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www.supplychange.co
Heather "H" Nieto-Friga has an eclectic food systems background across service jobs, farmers market management, food justice organizing, local government food policy, nonprofit farm-to-school and farm-to-institution work on the state and national scales, and as a procurement director for Blue Apron and Imperfect Foods. Through her consultancy, SupplyChange, she builds power and develops supply chains between BIPOC and regenerative producers and corporate and institutional buyers in California and beyond. She is also the chair of the board of Real Food Generation, and advises a range of government and non-profit initiatives and trainings on supply chain justice and equity.
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Founder, Margin Design Studio
Alex has led and worked on projects at the intersection of the Arts, creativity, and innovation with organizations and partners ranging from the City and County of San Francisco and San Francisco Unified School District to the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He is a Juilliard graduate and was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Design Research where he focused on innovation leadership.
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Annemarie McKee-Brown designs beautiful school classrooms that support 21st century learning by providing flexible furniture options, centering student needs, and leveraging space as an instructional resource. She most recently designed K-12 classrooms for San Francisco Unified School District. Annemarie is the co-founder of AMB Design Labs Inc. and loves to explore how design of space can support our communities diverse needs.